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Native Media player navigation for the web / allow media keys to work on Deezer Web

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 12, 2018
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I've seen that with windows 10 you could add native pop ups notifications, I was wondering is it possible that you can add a feature that will use this pop ups to display the current track playing and/or help me navigate to the next or previous song on the playlist.

I've found my self lost in this space but have to find the window to repeat a track or skip some tracks that i don't like... its just a suggestion

I know that you can do this native pop ups with node js, but i think there can be a work around to have this. I just can imagine changing the track while typing this message without having to leave this page.

Thankx in advance
Regards O.o

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Rafael.

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks for the suggestion, hopefully our devs will be able to implement it soon!

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raccoonsarecool

Hitmaker

I was about to make a new post but then this was suggested! Almost made a duplicate.

Title:

Web player - add support for Media Session API

Description:

This means rich media notifications! Chrome for desktop also now has a global media controls button (an icon with a list and a music icon). When you provide metadata for the media, you get seeking and track changing, album art, titles, artists. Here are some relevant links:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/media-session

https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/media-session/

https://w3c.github.io/mediasession/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Session_API

and it’s something that Deezer’s main competitor, Spotify, has support for in their web player. But Spotify has removed features from their web player and is kinda why I use Deezer. Spotify does let you make a private listening session though which is suggested here: https://en.deezercommunity.com/features-feedback-44/private-from-flow-session-58434

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks a lot for these suggestions @raccoonsarecool I'll pass them on to the team who deals with our web version of Deezer :wink:

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raccoonsarecool

Hitmaker

https://web.dev/media-session/

an even better link

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks @raccoonsarecool, detailed info to clarify things for users too :wink:

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connrs

Roadie

Just following up from what @raccoonsarecool said in his reponses I just want to add that adding support for the Media Session API would make it really nice to run Deezer in Chrome/Firefox/Edge. The added benefit is that I can then use other extensions that do things like:

Log my currently playing/listened tracks to Listenbrainz
Do things with IFTTT
Slack/Discord integration

This is sugar on top of making the media keys work without a browser extension. (P.S. Most of the browser extensions I’ve seen - that add support for media keys - don’t tend to work if you aren’t working in the browser window itself.)

TLDR: I’d be really excited if you did add this but it’s not a dealbreaker for me! I’ve been using Deezer for about 4 days now and I’m loving it!

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connrs

Roadie

Welp. It looks like you’ve already integrated it! I’m a Google Play Music refugee and I installed the extension a couple of days ago to help with exporting some rare MP3s before I switched to you folks at Deezer. Little did I know that the extension would get in the way of your integration!

<3 thanks folks!

Rudi

Ultimate Superstar

Thanks for sharing your feedback and comments here @connrs :grin:

There's still a lot to do with the desktop app on the subjects you mentioned above - Discord, IFTT, Last.fm. And these features should get more traction at Deezer in the next few months - stay tuned :thumbsup_tone2: